Can Hulk Smash? by SageRageMage

Format: Commander

Commander: Hulk, Gamma Goliath

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Gruul combat deck built around Hulk, Gamma Goliath and large Gamma creatures. The game plan focuses on deploying acceleration in the opening turns, casting the commander on Turn 4, and utilizing the power-up mechanic alongside damage multipliers to eliminate opponents with lethal combat damage. Support cards such as Xenagos, God of Revels, Unnatural Growth, Gratuitous Violence, and Berserk dramatically scale creature power, allowing single swings to knock players out of the game. The deck controls the board using efficient fight and bite spells like Ram Through and Hulk's Thunderclap, while clearing noncreature roadblocks with Force of Vigor and Beast Within. Because it wins through successive combat steps rather than infinite combos, it relies on trample and reach to punch through blockers. While vulnerable to creature removal and lacking countermagic, its high density of interchangeable Gamma threats ensures persistent pressure throughout the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abomination, Terrifying Titan
  • 1 Absorbing Man and Titania
  • 1 Ancient Animus
  • 1 Ancient Grudge
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Antagonize
  • 1 Armed // Dangerous
  • 1 Awaken the Bear
  • 1 Band Together
  • 1 Battle Hymn
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Berserk
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bite Down
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blessed Respite
  • 1 Bloom Hulk
  • 1 Brute Force
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Burning Anger
  • 1 Burst of Strength
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Claws of Valakut
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dancing from Dark to Dawn
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Embercleave
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 17 Forest
  • 1 Gamma Grotesque
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 HULK SMASH!
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hulk's Thunderclap
  • 1 Hulk, Always Angry
  • 1 Hulk, Bruce Banner
  • 1 Hulk, Brutal Brawler
  • 1 Hulk, Gamma Goliath
  • 1 Hulk, Strongest There Is
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Hulkling, Burgeoning Bruiser
  • 1 Hulkling, Young Avenger
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mage Slayer
  • 17 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Rabid Gnaw
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Red Hulk
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Search for Tomorrow
  • 1 She-Hulk, Jade Defender
  • 1 She-Hulk, Jennifer Walters
  • 1 She-Hulk, Wallbreaker
  • 1 Soul's Fire
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temur Battle Rage
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 World War Hulk
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels